°µĶų±¬ĮĻapp Magazine Faculty Footnotes
Activities and awards for °µĶų±¬ĮĻappās outstanding professors
Gregg Afman (kinesiology) is the lead author of an article in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism exploring the āeffect of carbohydrate or sodium bicarbonate ingestion on performance during a validated basketball simulation test.ā He completed the project with scholars from England during his sabbatical at the University of Bath.
Scott Anderson (art) has published two illustrations in the Wall Street Journal accompanying āHow to Help Your Debt-Laden Gradā and āFatal Flaws in Your Retirement Planning.ā
Shannon Balram (assistant director of residence life), Maurice Lee (religious studies), Tatiana Nazarenko (dean of curriculum and educational effectiveness) and Telford Work (religious studies) presented āCollaborating for Quality of Student Learning: Academic Affairs and Student Life Teamwork on Institutional Assessmentā at the 2014 WASC Academic Resource Conference in Los Angeles.
John Blondell (theater) received a Distinguished Director of a Musical award from the Kennedy Centerās American College Theatre Festival for his work on āPirates of Penzance.ā The production was one of three college musicals in the nation recognized by the Kennedy Center with a Distinguished Production award. For her work with āPirates,ā Danila Korogodsky (theater) also earned a Distinguished Scenography for a Musical award.
Alister Chapman (history) wrote a review for Books & Culture about āThe Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Unionā by Luuk van Middelaar. He presented āImmigration and Religion in Derby, 1945-1970,ā with history major Rachel Hatcher at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, where he was appointed secretary of the conferenceās executive committee. In March, he was elected for a second term as the °µĶų±¬ĮĻapp facultyās vice chair.
Four colleaguesāJesse Covington (political science), Maurice Lee (religious studies), Sarah Skripsky (English) and Lesa Stern (communication studies)āpublished a review, āIrreducibly Embodied,ā in Books & Culture on the latest book by James K.A. Smith, āImagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works.ā
Michael Everest (chemistry) published an article in the American Journal of Physics, āBalanced polarimeter: A cost-effective approach for measuring the polarization of light,ā with Ken Kihlstrom (physics) and Luke H.C. Patterson ā14.
Charlie Farhadian (religious studies) co-edited the āOxford Handbook of Religious Conversion,ā published by Oxford University Press. The volume features scholarly essays on the philosophy and practices of conversion and missiology within various religious traditions.
Jane Higa (former dean of students and vice president for student life) has received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community 2014 Doris Michiko Ching Shattering the Glass Ceiling Award.
Russell Howell (mathematics) wrote the lead essay, āThe Matter of Mathematics,ā for the American Scientific Affiliationās journal, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. He will also select and edit response essays for the journal. He will be the keynote speaker at the reception for the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences.
Savannah Kelly (instructional services librarian) published āLibrarians, Renounce the Research Paper! Using Rhetoric to Improve Assignment Designā in the College and Undergraduate Libraries journal.
Cheri Larsen Hoeckley (English) presented āāFarebrother will believeā: Epistemologies of Science and Religion in āMiddlemarchāā at the North American Victorian Studies Conference. She published two reviews in the journal Review 19 on current studies in Victorian literature and Christianity.
Nathan Huff (art) showed drawings and sculptures in the āStorytellersā exhibition at Biola University, which coincided with a symposium, āTranscending the iWorld: Extraordinary Stories in a Fragmented Age,ā hosted by the Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts at Biola.
Tremper Longman (religious studies) has published another book, āOld Testament Essentials: Creation, Conquest, Exile and Returnā (Inter-Varsity Press). He co-edited the Romanian edition of the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery.
Chris Milner (kinesiology) published āLāArche, a Community of People with Disabilities, and the University Graduate in Allied Health Fields: A Potential Collaboration,ā in the journal of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Senior Scientist Mentor Program has funded a proposal by Allan Nishimura (chemistry) for āSimple Aromatic Hydrocarbon Aerosolsā for two years to support undergraduate research assistants.
Edd Noell (business and economics) presented āCapitalism and Christian Ethicsā at the Free Market Forum Conference in San Diego as part of a panel on capitalism and poverty. He gave an interview at the Evangelical Theological Society meetings in Baltimore on capitalism and Christian ethics for an online podcast by the Institute of Faith, Work and Economics.
Greg Orfalea (English) has published a biography of JunĆpero Serra, āJourney to the Sun: JunĆpero Serraās Dream and the Founding of Californiaā (Scribner).
Rick Pointer (history) presented a paper at the Organization of American Historians on Johannes Papunhank, a Munsee Indian religious reformer. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography will publish his article on the relationship between Papunhank and the Quakers. Pointer appeared in a British television documentary on early American missionary David Brainerd and serves as a historical consultant for a documentary on the history of the Channel Islands.
In March, Tito Paredes (anthropology) led a workshop at Peruās Orlando E. Costas Mission Center on āThe Relationship of Anthropology to the Mission of the Church in Latin America.ā He was selected to join a multidisciplinary research-study team for āOn Knowing Humanity,ā funded by a grant from the Templeton Foundation.
Susan Penksa (political science) spoke on āThe EU in Global Security: Continuities and Challenges,ā hosted by Georgetown Universityās Center for Security Studies. She authored a chapter, āThe Roles and Impact of EU and NATO Assistance in Post-Conflict Georgiaā in the book, āPanorama of Global Security 2013,ā released by the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Helen Rhee (religious studies) presented āWhere Are the Poor in āCharityā?: Thoughts on Gary Andersonās āCharity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Traditionā,ā at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Baltimore. She received a Ping Faculty Development Fellowship for International Faculty Development Seminar on āComparative Business Perspective in Tokyo and Shanghaiā from the Council on International Educational Exchange in March.
Carmel Saad (psychology) will speak on āBiculturalism from Around the World: East Asians Report More Bicultural Identity Harmony Than Other Bicultural Groupsā at the conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Austin, Texas.
Sue Savageās (art) painting, āFirst and Last,ā was included in the traveling exhibition āCome to the Table,ā sponsored by CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts).
Amanda Sparkman (biology) spoke at a meeting of researchers involved in an NIH-funded planning grant on the longevity of wolves, presenting āAging, Reproduction and Social Behavior in Wild Canis.ā Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology will publish her article, āPhysiological indices of stress in wild and captive garter snakes: Correlations, repeatability, and ecological variation.ā
Mitchell Thomas (theater) developed a program for the Santa Barbara Museum of Artās Delacroix exhibit, āSurprised by Shakespeare: Pop-up Performance,ā featuring performances inspired by the artistās āHamlet Suite.ā Thomas and Alister Chapman (history), Marianne Robins (history), Celeste Tavera (music), Paul Willis (English), Casey Caldwell ā08 and Lauren White ā14 participated in the performance.
Cynthia Toms (director of global education) and her co-writers published āThe Effects of Religious Engagement on College Studentsā Affective Outcomes: Differences by Gender and Raceā in the Journal of Research on Christian Education. She also spoke on āThe Impact of International Volunteerism and Service on Participatory Community Developmentā at the International Service Learning Summit at Northwestern University.
Sharon Tang-Quan (English) joined a three-day panel hosted by the American Comparative Literature Association at New York University that discussed āThe Horizons of Sinophone Studies.ā She presented a paper, āCultural Capital Post-Tiananmen Square: The Transnational Sensibility of Cultural Difference in Wang Pingās Poetics.ā
Jim Taylor (philosophy) received a $15,000 course development grant from the Biola University Center for Christian Thought to support his new class, āIntellectual Virtue and Civil Discourse.ā
Niva Tro (chemistry) published a textbook, āChemistry: Structures and Propertiesā (Pearson). Pearson is also releasing the fifth edition of his book, āIntroductory Chemistry,ā with an eText. Michael Everest (chemistry) developed a companion workbook for the textbook.
Tom Walters (kinesiology) will give a lecture, āMovement System Analysis: Using Technology to Differentiate Your Practice,ā at the American Physical Therapy Associationās NEXT Conference.
Paul Willis (English) gave a lecture and poetry reading at Dallas Baptist University in April.
Jane Wilson (education) and Paige Harris ā14 presented āPreparing Oneās Heart to Teachā at the Christians for Diversity in the Academy Conference at Azusa Pacific University.
Rachel Winslow contributed the chapter, āThinking Historically about International Adoption,ā to the book, āThe Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues across Disciplines,ā released by Cambridge Scholars Press. She also presented āMake Way for Mavericks: U.S. Adoption, Volunteerism and āCan-Doā Policymaking during the Vietnam War,ā at the American Historical Association conference in January.